Greek noun (masculine) · G5506
χιλίαρχος
chiliarchoskhil-ee'-ar-khos
military officer
21 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chilíarchos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5506is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5506
the commander of a thousand soldiers ("chiliarch"; i.e. colonel
The King James renders it: (chief, high) captain.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chiliarchos is rendered "military officer". It stands 21 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 6:21On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
Mark 6:21χιλιάρχοις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seventeen of the word's twenty-one uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- commander17
- commanders2
- chief captains1
- of commanders1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- χιλίαρχος10
- χιλιάρχῳ4
- χιλίαρχον3
- χιλιάρχοις2
- χιλίαρχοι1
- χιλιάρχων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular10N-NSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular4N-DSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular3N-ASM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural2N-DPM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
Mark
one use
On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
- χιλιάρχοιςchiliarchoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: chief captains
John
one use
Then the band of soldiers, with its commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him.
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
Acts
seventeen uses
While they were trying to kill him, the commander of the Roman regiment received a report that all Jerusalem was in turmoil.
- χιλιάρχῳchiliarchonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: commander
Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
- χιλίαρχονchiliarchonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: commander
The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
As they were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?” “Do you speak Greek?” he replied.
- χιλιάρχῳchiliarchonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: commander
the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him.
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”
- χιλιάρχῳchiliarchonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: commander
The commander went to Paul and asked, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” “Yes,” he answered.
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
The dispute grew so violent that the commander was afraid they would tear Paul to pieces. He ordered the soldiers to go down and remove him by force and bring him into the barracks.
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
- χιλιάρχῳchiliarchonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”
- χιλίαρχονchiliarchonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: commander
So the centurion took him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner sent and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”
- χιλίαρχονchiliarchonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: commander
The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside, and asked, “What do you need to tell me?”
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Do not tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing and said, “When Lysias the commander comes, I will decide your case.”
- χιλίαρχοςchiliarchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: commander
The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the auditorium, along with the commanders and leading men of the city. And Festus ordered that Paul be brought in.
- χιλιάρχοιςchiliarchoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: commanders
Revelation
two uses
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- χιλίαρχοιchiliarchoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: commanders
so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”
- χιλιάρχωνchiliarchonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of commanders
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.